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Blessing Akpan

Blessing Akpan

Founder and MD/CEO of Inyene Agro Processing Factory Ltd, a Nigerian agribusiness producing biofortified garri and cassava products aimed at improving nutrition and food security.

Jul 13, 2026

0:26
Now, tell us a bit about yourself, your journey, and how you started Ian Agro.
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Oh, a bit about myself.
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There's someone, I've always been a business consultant in Lagos.
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And then agriculture found me when someone called and said they needed cassava chips.
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And when I looked into it, I knew that that order was going to be amounting to about $30 million every week.
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And as a young person, that spiked my interest.
0:54
Like $30 million, what am I doing in Lagos? Let's go to the village.

6 MINS LATER

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and many young people right now uh crying no jobs no nothing no there's not that and then when people tell them to start businesses they're like what kind of business can i start what what opportunities are available for these young people say if they had say like a hundred thousand era today and wanted to start something in the agribusiness what would they do

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